Doyin Okupe, the tentative Vice-Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has announced that the planned alliance between his party and Rabiu Kwankwaso’s New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP) for the 2023 general election is “dead”.
Okupe said this on Tuesday night during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today.
According to Okupe, who is the placeholder as running mate to the LP presidential candidate and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, the plan had been dead since about four weeks ago.
The former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member disclosed that the negotiation became deadlocked when the LP side queried the emergence of another Muslim northerner succeeding President Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim from the North.
He also aimed at jibe at Kwankwaso for somehow denigrating the southeast region after he said the region has not been strategic in its plans, noting that they are at the lowest ebb politically.
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